Paddy's Lucerne (Sida rhombifolia)
Usually confined to waste ground, such as roadsides and rocky areas, stock camps or rabbit warrens, but can be competitive in pasture, due to its unpalatability to livestock. The common name suggests that it has good feed value, but this is not ... [... more]
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Eric Bogosian
He spent his earliest years in post WWII-refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland-stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged ... [... more]
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Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Buczacz, Galicia, at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was incarcerated between 1941 and 1945 in Buchenwald and Mauthausen and other concentration camps. In 1946, together with 30 other ... [... more]
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Stefan Maechler
Stefan Maechler studied history and German literature at the University of Zurich. He lives in Zurich. This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which [... more]
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The Bridegroom
Ha Jin's masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao's ... [... more]
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Jan Beazely
Set during the darkest days of World War II, King's Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his country's Jewish population from Hitler's concentration camps. Aware of... In a world ... [... more]
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Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination-both physical and emotional-of ... [... more]
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Daoud Hari
Daoud Hari was born in the Darfur region of Sudan. After escaping an attack on his village, he entered the refugee camps in Chad and began serving as a translator for major news organizations including The New York Times, NBC, and the BBC, as ... [... more]
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
You may need to think through ways of coping with the reactions of other people. They may be Younger people may find that group activities, such as diabetes camps, can be places to make accepting friendships and to work out how to manage ... [... more]
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Anne Applebaum
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In ... [... more]
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Karl Tobien
The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag The shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia. Between 1930 and ... [... more]
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Kathy Santo
Kathy Santo has trained dogs for both home and competition. She currently sees more than a hundred dogs each week at her obedience school and offers advice to hundreds of owners through her seminars and camps. She lives in New Jersey with her ... [... more]
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